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Rift Festival Stockholm

[#year0001rift] The second and final artist reveal for RIFT Stockholm is now live.⁠ ⁠ Join us on Friday September 2nd at Förbindelsehallen in Stockholm for this one-day festival featuring a custom stage design, marketplace and more in a unique venue 5 minutes from Globen subway station.⁠ ⁠ Tickets & Info: https://rift.year0001.com

VARG²™ - Lonestar Pandemonium

[#varg2tm] Swedish artist, producer VARG²™ has released his inventive new EP Lonestar Panemonium. ⁠ The EP comes in the form of four new tracks, each one teetering gracefully between beauty & chaos and featuring guest appearances from whitearmor, Golin, and Bladee & Ecco2k.⁠ ⁠ VARG²™’s skill as both a producer and cultural architect shines throughout the project as he continues to craft his sound from within the thriving Stockholm music scene into a global phenomenon.⁠ ⁠ Listen now: https://yr1.se/lonestar

Ecco2k & Bladee — Amygdala

[#amygdala] Ecco2k & Bladee's minimalist pop experiment "Amygdala" is the latest entry in the duo's long running creative partnership, a playful meditation on spirituality, love and the interconnectedness of all things, thinly veiled behind a sugary pop exterior constructed by producer Mechatok.⁠ ⁠ The intense visual directed by Anton Tammi matches the skeletal track with a fragmented voyeuristic view on a disorienting world of celebration, fame and shady glamour.⁠ Watch & Listen Now: https://yr1.se/amygdala

VilloVilduVeta - 'Nikita'

[#villovilduveta] Listen to YR0152 — 'Nikita' by VilloVilduVeta. Available now on all streaming platforms. Listen now: https://yr1.se/nikita

Dim Spirit - Clear Recent History

[#dimspirit] YR0130 — "Clear Recent History" is a culmination of Dim Spirit's widespread influences, past experiences and current contemplations, making the record an uplifting exploration of sounds, moods and accompanying visuals perfectly designed for escapism, offering the listener a chance to turn the vivid pages of his own personal sketchbook.⁠ ⁠ Listen now: https://yr1.se/dimspirit

YEAR0001 Sounds Update

[#year0001sounds] New additions to our bi-weekly curated Spotify playlist. Cover feature: 'pigments' by bloodz boi 血男孩 & sam tiba Listen now: https://sounds.year0001.com

Provoker - Blue Sheen

[#provoker] 'Blue Sheen', the final single leading up to Provoker's debut album 'Body Jumper' due August 13th is out now. ⁠ ⁠ The dreamlike anthemic lo-fi offering also sees itself enhanced with a Maxwell Carver-directed visual, premiering on August 12th. ⁠ ⁠ Listen & sign up for the video premiere: https://yr1.se/bluesheen

Bladee — egobaby (Official Video)

[#bladee] 'egobaby' from Bladee's latest album 'The Fool' gets revisited with a video directed by Hendrik Schneider. Centering around the concept of liminality and the ambiguous state of transitioning from one definitive state to another. Watch ‘egobaby’ now: https://bit.ly/egobabymv

VilloVilduVeta "Längtan Får Vingar"

[#VilloVilduVeta] VilloVilduVeta's (producer Whitearmor and musician Joakim Benon (JJ) debut album & title track "Längtan Får Vingar" receives a Hendrik Schneider directed visual.⁠ ⁠ Watch the visual: bit.ly/vvvmv

YEAR0001 SOUNDS

[#year0001sounds] New additions to our bi-weekly curated Spotify playlist. Cover feature: 'Helix Sky' by Yen Tech Listen now: sounds.year0001.com

VilloVilduVeta - Längtan Får Vingar

[#VilloVilduVeta] VilloVilduVeta´s (producer Whitearmor and musician Joakim Benon (JJ) debut album "Längtan Får Vingar" is highly melodic at heart, but veils itself in layers upon layers of organic instrumentation and a bittersweet electronic murmur, creating a pleasant yet multifaceted listen throughout it's 7 tracks.⁠ ⁠ Listen now, and watch the Hendrik Schneider directed visual: https://yr1.se/langtan

Provoker - Bugs & Humans

[#provoker] "Bugs & Humans," the 2nd single from Provoker's debut album "Body Jumper" (due Aug 13th), offers the listener a sugary, melancholic rush through a palette of industrial music and post punk.⁠ ⁠ As demonstrated in the accompanying Alexis Gross directed video, the first part of the story is sung from a child's perspective, while the second arrives from the perspective of a thoroughly alienated adult; the two sections share the same musical backbone, and are aligned by a parallel lyrical motif, tying it all together⁠ ⁠ Listen & watch now: https://yr1.se/bugshumans

Thaiboy Digital - I Go I Go

[#thaiboydigital] Thaiboy Digital is back with a majestic visual for the track 'I Go I Go' off last years YEAR0001 RIFT One compilation. Watch now: https://bit.ly/igoigomv

YEAR0001 Sounds

[#year0001sounds] New additions to our bi-weekly curated Spotify playlist. Cover feature: 'Enter' by Vivian Koch Listen now: https://sounds.year0001.com

Team Rockit - Tre Konungar

[#teamrockit] 10 år 3K Inga sår (Rockit) Team Rockit "Tre Konungar" video out now. Archive footage by Team Rockit, edit by Philip Svensson. Watch now: http://bit.ly/3konungar

YEAR0001 Rift x Primavera Sound

[#year0001rift] We´re proud to present the first additions to our Primavera Sound 2022 RIFT line-up, featuring some of the labels most profilic artists and collaborators. RIFT is an ongoing series of releases and events curated by YEAR0001, featuring contributions and commissions by a variety of highly innovative and influential artists. The name RIFT symbolizes the crack through the conventional music industry created by YEAR0001 with its well-balanced and progressive audio and visual imprints. Tickets & Info: https://www.primaverasound.com/en

Team Rockit - Bahamut Zero

[#teamrockit] As the final act in the life of the double-headed behemoth that is their discography, Team Rockit is now ready to unleash "Bahamut Zero", a record blossoming with lush, intricate compositions balancing carefully between the synthetic and organic, a highly diverse sweep through languishing ballads, anthemic bits of pure pop, slow burning passages of reflection and pulsating moments of uncontrollable ecstasy.⁠ ⁠ Thematically, "Bahamut Zero" touches on isolation in the modern world, the search for spiritual context and increasing dysfunctionality in society - all narrated via a series of interludes by Attu, a fictional AI with vague intents, raising mindful questions about cryptography, privacy and source criticism.⁠ ⁠ Listen now: yr1.se/bahamutzero bahamutzero.bz

Dark0 — Wait For Me

[#dark0] "Wait For Me" is the second single fromDark0´s forthcoming album "Eternity", a tranquil and deeply emotional piece of electronic songcraft with a sonic resonance and overall ambience akin to that of a VGM-style saga, carried forward by fluent basslines and hazy melodies accompanied by a trademark visual from by CESTAINSI ⁠ On "Eternity", Dark0´s trademark, cinematic soundscapes are packed with elegant piano melodies and crystal clear string arrangements, which in turn are expertly interlaced with blockbuster-like sections of hyper charged bass and soaring trance toplines - and together with vocal features by Merely and Malibu, they create a fully blooming listening experience and a highly captivating narrative throughout. ⁠ ⁠ Listen / Watch 'Wait For Me': https://yr1.se/waitforme 'Eternity' out June 4th, pre-save: https://yr1.se/eternity

[#provoker] Provoker's 'Spell Strike' brings forth a peculiar type of minor key romanticism, verging on blasé in it's delivery, quietly holding a rumbling obscurity beneath the surface - a carefully crafted piece of escapist gloom, laced with highly organic neo gothic melodies and throbbing darkwave rhythmics.⁠ ⁠ 'Spell Strike' is paired with a dystopian visual (courtesy of Actual Objects) that further amplifies the raw atmospherics and sincere emotional appeal of the track.⁠ ⁠ Listen & Watch now: https://yr1.se/spellstrike